Hegseth Says He'll Review Afghanistan Withdrawal
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The defense secretary’s decision to select his chief spokesman to lead the inquiry into the chaotic end of the war was highly unusual.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced a new probe into the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal, vowing accountability for what he called the Biden administration’s “disastrous and embarrassing” handling of the events that led to the deaths of 13 US troops.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is instructing the Pentagon to launch a comprehensive review into the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021. President Joe Biden removed U.S. troops from ...
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In a Sunday interview on Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Stanley Allen McChrystal—a former four-star general who served under former President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama—called Hegseth and other White House officials of his ilk a “symptom” of a larger loss of character in America.